Andy Roddick Quotes

My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it’s more letting them know that I’m not going to let them get away with something, and I’m not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies.

I like playing tennis. I’ve always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I’m just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn’t recover from the day-to-day grind.

Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we’re building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I’d like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.

Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich… My mother‘s is the best. I’ve tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it’s never the same.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could‘ve done that better.

My entire career, I’ve been a worker.

I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.

I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I’ve met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally – I’ve been completely committed… The results have shown.

I’m the most successful bad player ever.

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the ‘aw shucks’ Nebraska kid who‘s coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there’s parts of both, but I don’t think I am either one, if that makes sense.

Stay in school kids or you’ll end up being an umpire.

I think I’ve always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.

I don’t have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don’t think I retired so that I could be on tour.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn’t have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

I don’t really rate press conferences. It’s not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

I want everyone to look back and think that I was awesome.

If I’m being honest, I think I’d be good at television; I just don’t know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don’t know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day.

You ask me a question, I’m going to give you an honest answer.

I’ll never lose my roots. I think I’m too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to Nebraska every year, and I still love going back to Texas where I grew up, as well. I’ve just kind of had to mature a little bit more and get used to a little bit different style of life.

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven‘t lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don’t want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

I’ve been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

I’m convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you’re always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

I’ve pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn’t been covered yet.

It’s not so much that I don’t like traveling, it’s just that I love being home. I love being able to spend time with my friends.

I think if I believe in something strongly enough, I’m pretty outspoken about it.

At one point in your life, you’ll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t.

I don’t know that I’ll ever be the guy who needs to go to a tournament to be seen and to spectate. I feel like I can accomplish spectating from home.

I used to go to the U.S. Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

Stay in college, kids. Otherwise, you may become an umpire.

My worst days are still pretty good days. That’s something I might lose in the moment sometimes, but I have a pretty good grasp of it.

I don’t think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we’re on the court.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.